Vehicle-gear.



PATENTBD JULY 24, 1906.

P. WILGOX.

VEHICLE GEAR.

APPLICATION FILED JANA], 1-906.

Witmeooed MM w UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK E. WVILCOX, OF MECHANICSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. VEHICLE-GEAR.

N 0. 826,636. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 9,1906. Serial No. 295,229.

ends of the clips; 17, seats in the ends of the upperfifth-wheel memberto receive the ends of the spring-plate; 18, the axle-clip; 19, aperforated lug at the rear of the clip 20, the axle-yoke 21, theking-bolt, having one side of its head cut away and a plain surfacethereof bearing against the spring, whereby the said bolt is anchored soit cannot turn; 22, the brace and perforated brace-head, and 23 is a nutwhich holds the brace-head in position and also retains the king-bolt inplace. It will be observed that in the construction shown the commonhead-block is omittedQthat a springplate unites the ends of the upperfifth-wheel member, which plate is provided with a seat for the lowerleaves of the spring, and that the clip-bolts unite the ends of thereach-irons, the spring-plate, and the spring. As thus constructed thegear is simplified and cheapened, and the parts thereof can be assembledand detached for repairs Patented July 24, 1906.

To CLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. WILOOX, a citizen of the United States,chanicsburg, and State of P new and useful Gears, of which tion.

My invention relates to vehicle-gears, and especially to the plate whichunites the ends of the upper fifth-wheel member and the atand the endsof the reach-1rons to the same, the object being to simplify theconstruction, dispense with the block, and locate t e spring upon aplate and nearer the axle than has heretofore been the common practice.

1 y invention consists in certain novelties construction andcombinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and specified in the caims.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the physical embodiment of theinvention constructed according to the best mode I have so far devised.

igure 1 is a view in perspective of a veicle-gear, showing myimprovements, the lower part only of the elliptic spring beingillustrated. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of the spring-plate, partof the spring, and one reach-iron. ig. 3 shows one of the clipbolts.Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the springplate. Fig. 5 is a bottom planview of the plate. Fig. 6 is a section of Fig. 1 on the line of thekingbolt.

eferring to the several Ineral 1 designates the axis; 2, the axle-bed;3, the lower member of the fifth-wheel; 4, the upper member of thefifth-wheel; 5, the reaches; 6, the reach-irons; 7, recesses in the endsof the irons with a hole at each side thereof for the bolt ends ofspring-plate; 9, a curved seat upon the top surface of the lennsylvania, have invented Improvements in Vehiclethe following is aspecificawith facility.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

e combination in a vehicle-gear, of an axle and bed; an axle-clip; upperand lower fifth-wheel members; reach-irons With perforated ends; aspring-plate secured to the ends of the upper fifth-wheel member, saidplate having a seat on its top surface for a spring, a perforatedking-bolt lug, and seats in its lower surface for the ends of thereachirons; a spring; clip-bolts uniting the reachti)rons, springplate,and spring and a kingolt. figures, the nu- 2. A vehicle-gear having anupper fifthwheel member; a spring-plate joining the ends of the saidfift -wheel member; reach-irons perforated at their ends; a spring;clip-bolts spring-plate, and and means for anchoring the spring 3. Thecombination in a vehicle-gear, of reach-irons with perforated endspringplate; spring-leaves with apertures in the top leaf; and clip-boltseach having a lug seated within an aperture in the top leaf of t espring.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK E. WILCOX. Witnesses H. 0. BROWN, J. BRICKER.

